bilberry

English

Bilberries

Wikispecies

Etymology

Probably of North Germanic origin (Danish bøllebær), from Old Norse bolli (Proto-Germanic *bullǭ) + ber.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɪlb(ə)ɹɪ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

bilberry (plural bilberries)

1. Vaccinium myrtillus, the wild European blueberry of the cowberry family.

   Synonyms: blaeberry, fraughan, whort, whortle, whortleberry, whimberry

2. The shrub of the above-mentioned plant.

Derived terms

• bilberried
• bilberrying
• bog bilberry
• northern bilberry

 

Translations

Also see the translations of blueberry

type of blueberry from the cowberry family — see also blueberry

• Albanian: kulumri f, thrashegër (sq) f, boronicë (sq) f, belush (sq) m, qershigël (sq) f,
• Bulgarian: черна боровинка (černa borovinka)
• Catalan: nabiu (ca) m
• Czech: borůvka (cs) f
• Danish: blåbær (da)
• Dutch: bosbes (nl) c
• Estonian: mustikas, harilik mustikas
• Faroese: bláber n
• Finnish: mustikka (fi)
• French: myrtille (fr) f
• Galician: arando (gl) m
• German: Heidelbeere (de)

  Alemannic German: Buderi pl

• Greek: μύρτιλο (el) n (mýrtilo)
• Hungarian: fekete áfonya (hu)
• Icelandic: aðalbláber (is) n
• Irish: fraochán
• Italian: mirtillo (it) m
• Ladin: gialvëija f
• Latin: vaccīnium n
• Latvian: mellene (lv) f
• Lithuanian: mėlynė (lt) f
• Malay: bilberi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: blåbær n

  Nynorsk: blåbær n

• Old English: hǣþberiġe f
• Polish: borówka (pl) f, czarna jagoda (pl) f
• Portuguese: arando (pt) m
• Romanian: afin (ro)
• Russian: черни́ка (ru) f (černíka) (evergreen bilberry, Vaccinium myrtillus), голуби́ка (ru) f (golubíka) (bog bilberry, whortleberry, Vaccinium uliginosum)
• Scottish Gaelic: dearc-fhraoich f, dearcag-mhonaidh f, dearcag-fhraoich f
• Serbo-Croatian: borovnica (sh) f
• Slovak: čučoriedka (sk) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: carnica f

• Spanish: arándano (es) m, mirtilo m
• Swedish: blåbär (sv)
• Turkish: yabanmersini (tr)
• Ukrainian: чорни́ця f (čornýcja)
• Vietnamese: cây nham lê
• Walloon: caclindje (wa) m, frambåjhe (wa) m
• Welsh: llusen f
• Zazaki: boronc du or n du

the shrub of this plant

• Afrikaans: bosbessen
• Catalan: nabinera f
• Dutch: bosbessenstruik (nl)
• Estonian: mustikas
• Finnish: mustikanvarpu
• Galician: arandeira (gl) f
• German: Blaubeere (de)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: blåbær n

  Nynorsk: blåbær n

• Polish: borówka (pl) f, czarna jagoda (pl) f
• Russian: черни́ка (ru) f (černíka) (evergreen bilberry, Vaccinium myrtillus), голуби́ка (ru) f (golubíka) (bog bilberry, whortleberry, Vaccinium uliginosum)
• Scottish Gaelic: dearc-fhraoich f
• Slovak: čučoriedka (sk) f
• Ukrainian: чорни́ця f (čornýcja)
• Walloon: caclindjî (wa) m, frambåjhî (wa) m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} bláber (is)
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} ビルベリー (ja) (biruberī)
• Persian: ^{(please verify)} بیل بری (bil beri)

References

• “bilberry”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.